Inventor & Plant Designer: Biomass plants

Heinrich Lambion was a man of great inventive talent. From 1885 to 1905 he worked as an engineer and co-owner of the Russian boiler factory “Altvater & Son” in Moscow. In 1906 he came up with a far-reaching invention. He designed a mechanical feed unit for wood chip combustion. With this discovery, he had created the system that still serves as the basis for all biomass power plants working with combustion technology.

Lambion began to put his invention to use in 1917 when he founded the A. Lambion Engineering Works together with his son Alfred in Bad Arolsen, Germany. Since this time, countless custom designed and produced combustion facilities have been built at this location. 

Heinrich Lambion did not only pass on his technical knowledge to succeeding generations, but also his inventive spirit. With the father’s invention, the idea of “producing energy from otherwise useless biological waste” had been established. And the idea worked. Energy production from biogenic materials was highly successful, and the Lambion company developed into one of most important manufacturers of biomass combustion and feeding systems. Unceasing efforts to try out new biological fuels such as nut shells or grain husks and analyze combustion techniques have yielded ever better results.

From generation to generation Lambion improved the technology with a growing range of fuels. Based on this persistent search for knowledge and development of new techniques, today it is possible not only to convert wood chippings into useful energy, but also an exceedingly diverse range of solid biological materials using sophisticated techniques to obtain energy both economically and ecologically.

In the 1950s, Lambion grew from a manually oriented company of skilled craftsmen to an industrial enterprise. Lambion was the first company to introduce the use of the infeed grate (which until that time had only been used at brown coal power plants) in combination with biogenic fuels.

In the 1970s, Lambion concentrated on the development of international markets.
In 1986, the company sought a cooperation with an international corporate group that was endeavoring to expand its activities into the field of renewable energies. In 1997, however, Lambion’s partner reoriented itself to its core business field. The Lambion family used the opportunity to bring the company back into family ownership.

In 2000, Lambion succeeded in developing a new combustion technology - the ring burner. This innovation makes it possible to simultaneously utilize biogenic mixtures of dust and wood chippings for energy production. This represented a significant step forward for the wood-processing industry as well as for overall environmental protection. Using a multi-adjustable air supply system and targeted flue gas circulation, the ringer burner makes it possible to achieve 100% incineration of dust with emission values that are significantly below the limits for biomass incineration.

In 2007, Lambion  increased by a strategic partnership in order to broaden the operating company through to planners, the general contractor for complete plants and co-investor. Since this time, Axel Lambion and Dieter Weiss have led the company together under its new name Lambion Energy Solutions GmbH, reflecting an expansion of the core competencies the firm is offering its customers.

With an ongoing program of expansion into new business fields, Lambion Energy Solutions GmbH has been delivering turnkey biomass power plants since 2008. The biomass heating plants, power plants and CHP cogeneration facilities range in capacity from 1 - 30 MW_th and the turnkey concept also covers the financing of the projects.